Sole crash survivor 'probably' 9-year-old Dutch boy

The sole survivor of a Libyan plane crash that killed 103 people may be nine-year-old Ruben van Assouw from Tilburg in the southern Netherlands, a Dutch newspaper reported Thursday."We received a telephone call" from officials to say that the boy, being treated in a Libyan hospital, mentioned the name "Ruben", his grandmother An van de Sande told the Brabants Dagblad as the foreign ministry confirmed that two presumed family members of the injured child were on their way to Tripoli.

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The nine-year-old Dutch boy who was the only survivor of a plane crash that killed 103 people said he is in a lot of pain but keen to go home, in his first comments published on Friday.Ruben van Assouw could remember nothing of Wednesday's disaster and was not yet aware that his parents and 11-year-old brother had died in the accident, the Dutch newspaper Telegraaf reported. "My name is Ruben and I am from Holland," Telegraaf reported on a telephone conversation with the sole survivor of the Afriqiyah Airways crash at Tripoli airport.

The nine-year-old Dutch boy, who was the only survivor of a Libyan plane crash, returned to the Netherlands Saturday, three days after the disaster killed his parents, brother and 100 others, the Dutch tourism federation said."The plane with the surviving boy has landed," at the Eindhoven military air base in the southern Netherlands, ANWB spokesman Markus van Tol told AFP.Ruben van Assouw was accompanied on the flight from Matiga military airfield in the Libyan capital by his uncle, aunt and the Libyan doctor who had been treating him.

Nine-year-old Dutch boy Ruben van Assouw, the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed 103 people, left for home on Saturday aboard a Libyan air ambulance, an AFP reporter said.Dutch foreign ministry spokesman Christoph Prommersberger told AFP on Friday that Ruben van Assouw would be accompanied on the flight home "by his uncle and aunt and the doctor treating him."

The Dutch boy who was the sole survivor of a Libyan plane crash that killed 103 people said he is "fine" in comments on Friday, as it emerged the pilot reported no faults before the jet went down.Nine-year-old Ruben van Assouw can remember nothing of Wednesday's crash and was not yet aware that his parents and 11-year-old brother had died in the accident, the Dutch newspaper Telegraaf reported.

Nine-year-old Ruben van Assouw, the sole survivor of a Libyan airliner crash, arrived back home in the Netherlands on Saturday, three days after the disaster that killed his parents, brother and 100 others, officials said."The plane with the surviving boy has landed" at the Eindhoven military air base, spokesman Markus van Tol of the Dutch tourism federation ANWB told AFP, as reports said Ruben was then transferred to an ambulance with blacked out windows and taken to an undisclosed hospital.

Nine-year-old Ruben van Assouw, the sole survivor of a Libyan airliner crash, arrived back home in the Netherlands on Saturday, three days after the disaster that killed his parents, brother and 100 others, officials said."The plane with the surviving boy has landed" at the Eindhoven military air base, spokesman Markus van Tol of the Dutch tourism federation ANWB told AFP, as reports said Ruben was then transferred to an ambulance with blacked out windows and taken to an undisclosed hospital.

The nine-year-old Dutch boy who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Libyan capital prepared to fly home Saturday, three days after the disaster that killed his parents, brother, and 100 others.Dutch foreign ministry spokesman Christoph Prommersberger told AFP on Friday that the boy, Ruben van Assouw, would be accompanied on the flight home "by his uncle and aunt and the doctor treating him."They are set to leave Tripoli at 10:00 am (0800 GMT) for a destination in the Netherlands that the ministry refused to disclose.

The nine-year-old Dutch boy who was the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Libyan capital left for home on Saturday, three days after the disaster that killed his parents, brother and 100 others.Ruben van Assouw was accompanied on the flight from Matiga military airfield in the Libyan capital by his uncle, aunt and the Libyan doctor who had been treating him."He's a very special patient. He is talking and in good health. I will stay (in the Netherlands) for as long as necessary," Dr Siddiq ben Dilla told AFP before the Cessna Citation Libyan air ambulance took off.

A Libyan fighter jet reportedly crashed into a residential area Tuesday, killing the pilot and a child.
The MiG-21 reportedly spun out of control during a memorial event honouring a pilot killed in a crash last week. Officials blamed both incidents on mechanical problems.

An eight-year-old Dutch boy was the sole survivor when a Libyan plane arriving from South Africa exploded on landing at Tripoli airport on Wednesday, killing more than 100 people, officials said.Afriqiyah Airways listed 93 passengers and 11 crew members on board its flight 8U771 from Johannesburg."I can confirm the crash but not the number of the dead," said Bongani Sithole, an official of the airline at Johannesburg airport. "We hear that it happened one metre (yard) away from the runway."